Dr. Robert Clark Acting Department Head - Fall 2006 Webster Hall, Room 134 417-625-9791 E-Mail - clark-r@mssu.edu Personal Web Page

Spring 2008 Office Hours: Monday - 9-10, 11-12 Tuesday - 8-9:30, 10:30-11 Wednesday - 9-10, 11-12 Thursday - 8-9:30, 10:30-11 Friday - 9-10, 11-12

Dr. Robert L. Clark teaches both Speech Communication and Mass Communication courses. Dr. Clark has been general manager of KAXR-FM in Flagstaff, Arizona; program manager of KWAX-FM in Eugene, Oregon; worked at KSHB-TV, Channel 41, in Kansas City, Mo., and was general manager of KXMS-FM and Missouri Southern Television in their early days. He has a B.A. and an M.A. from Brigham Young University and a Ph.D. from the University of Oregon. He taught at Brigham Young University, Northern Arizona University, the University of Oregon, the University of Tennessee at Martin, and at Central Missouri State University prior to coming to Missouri Southern in 1984.

Spring 2008 Courses:

Comm 100 Oral Communication
Comm 131 Voice & Diction
Comm 200 Audio Production for Media with Lab

Additional Courses Taught At MSSU:
Comm 100 Oral Communication
Comm 130 Introduction to Broadcasting
Comm 131 Voice & Diction
Comm 200 Audio Production for Media with Lab
Comm 201 Video Production with Lab
Comm 301 Media Management
Comm 325 Broadcast News Reporting
Comm 330 Communication Practicum
Comm 425 Broadcast Scriptwriting
Comm 470 New Media Technology
Comm 475 Global Broadcasting
Comm 492 Communication Issues

Research Interests:

Professional Memberships:
Broadcast Education Association (BEA) institutional representative since 1984 and individual member
National Association of Educational Broadcasters from 1976 to 1981 when NAEB ceased to exist
Society of Professional Journalists, Sigma Delta Chi 1970-1988.

Honors/Awards/Recognition

Publications & Presentations

•  Student Operated Radio in Europe: A Case Study, The University Radio of Copenhagen,  by Robert L. Clark and J rgen Elgaard Larsen, Feedback, Winter 1996, pp2-5
•  Student Operated Radio Stations As Laboratoreis: Evaluating Student Performance," Feedback, Broadcast Education Association, Fall 1994. pp. 17-21.
•  Media, Mental Imagery, and Memory," Educational Communication and Technology Journal, Winter 1978. pp. 355-363.
• Put together and moderated a panel of experts on some rules and regulations of station operation at the 1994 convention of Broadcast Education Association, March 19, 1994, in Las Vegas.
• Prepared and moderated a panel on the rules and regulations of broadcast station operation at the 1993 convention of Broadcast Education Association, April 17, 1993, in Las Vegas.
• "The Radio Station Chief Operator May Be Your Student," presented at the 1992 convention of the Broadcast Education Association in Las Vegas in April 1992.
• "Financing a Low Power Television Station" presented at the 1992 convention of the Broadcast Education Association in Las Vegas in April 1992.
• "Student Operated Radio Stations as a Laboratory: Evaluating Student Performance," presented at the 1989 convention of Broadcast Education Association in Las Vegas.
• "Using Cable and Public Broadcast Stations in the Broadcast Curriculum," presented at the 1988 convention of the Broadcast Education Association in Las Vegas.

 

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